British aid worker feared killed in airstrike on Gaza

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Reports that a British aid worker had been killed while working in Gaza were
being urgently investigated by the Foreign Office tonight.

Social media posts suggested that he was called Kadir Islam, and that he had
died in an airstrike on the Israeli border town of Rafah while delivering
medical supplies to a hospital. David Cameron said that the government was
investigating the claims.

During a visit to Loos war cemetery in northern France today, Mr Cameron said:
“I’m extremely concerned about these reports and we are doing everything we
can to get to the bottom [of them]and find out

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Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

August 4 2014 Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

August 4 2014 Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Palestinian militant leader Daniel Mansour was killed when a missile hit his home

August 4 2014 AP

A Palestinian man reacts after the body of his mother is removed from rubble at their home

August 4 2014 Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Rescue workers search for victims of the Israeli military offensive

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Witnesses said a drone hit a motorcycle carrying two men near the UN school

August 4 2014 AP

An Israeli tank returns to Israel from the Gaza Strip

August 4 2014 Reuters

A mosque and water tower damaged by shelling in the Gaza Strip

August 4 2014 Reuters

Injured children are carried to hospital after the Israeli airstrike on a Rafah UN school

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A boy cries under rubble of a house where nine members of a family were killed

August 4 2014 Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Freed from the rubble, the injured boy is taken for medical treatment

August 4 2014 Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

A column of tanks returning to Israel from action in the Gaza Strip

August 4 2014 Siegfried Modola/Reuters

The tank movements are part of a 'redeployment to other parts of the border'

August 4 2014 Siegfried Modola/Reuters

Palestinians amid the devastation of a Rafah house, hit by an airstrike, where a family died

August 4 2014 Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Buildings destroyed by Israeli shelling in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip